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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In The Ghost Map, when did Snow give testimony in Parliament on behalf of the "offensive Trades" (204)?
(a) 1854.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1857.

2. In 1843, where did a proposal want to have cast-iron sewers transport waste?
(a) Kent and Essex.
(b) Shropshire.
(c) Cumbria and Suffolk.
(d) Surrey.

3. In The Ghost Map, how many days after suffering a stroke, did Snow die?
(a) 1.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

4. In All Smell is Disease, how far back did the miasma theory date to?
(a) Third century B.C.
(b) 312 A.D.
(c) Fourth century A.D.
(d) 104 B.C.

5. When was Edwin Chadwick appointed to the Poor Law Commission?
(a) 1832.
(b) 1831.
(c) 1827.
(d) 1829.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Ghost Map, when the new sewer system was designed, when was sewage discharged into the Thames?

2. In The Ghost Map, when did John Snow begin working on his first map of the Broad Street outbreak?

3. What did the Board of Health have put on the streets in All Smell is Disease?

4. In Building the Case, within how many days did a tailor on Cross Street and his children die?

5. In The Ghost Map when the news sewers were construction, how much did it cost to build the main intercepting sewers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did one scholar testify before Parliament in 1864 about the value of London's sewage?

2. What was the Great Stink and how did it affect epidemic disease at the time?

3. In Building the Case, how would residents of Cross Street get to the Broad Street pump?

4. When and why would a tailor send one of his boys to get well water at the Broad Street pump in Building the Case?

5. In Building the Case, why did residents in well-to-do neighborhoods believe that the outbreak of cholera took place among the poor?

6. In The Ghost Map, why was Edmund Cooper sent to investigate the Broad Street epidemic?

7. Why was the pump handle removed on September 8?

8. In The Pump Handle, what was discovered when a surveyor examined the cesspool at the base of 40 Broad?

9. In The Pump Handle, why did Whitehead have a crucial edge in the cholera investigation?

10. How did Henry Mayhew see waste recycling as a way of increasing population growth?

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